Gorgeous!! Jasmine is an amazing plant to have around. You are obviously making yours very happy!
@Moonbeam - Say Hello to your little ladybug (what we call them here in the US) for me! It’s always a happy time to see them coming out!
Still too chilly for much of anything to start growing here. I was thrilled to see even the tiniest hint of buds on my little dwarf River Birch - he just got planted last year, and this was such a brutally cold winter to endure! But he has survived!
I’ve trimmed back my pollinator garden plants - swamp milkweed, bee balm, Cardinal flower, honeysuckle, button bush, joe pye weed - and now am waiting to see the first little green shoots appear. It should be before the month’s end, but we’ll see what Gaia gives us for warmth and rain.
The critters are also telling me how close we are to Spring - the red-winged blackbirds have made an appearance in my back yard this morning, and there was a robin yesterday. The mourning doves are cooing again, and the Canada geese are flying overhead.
I love honeysuckle the bees and small birds absolutely love them my Mum had one in her garden growing along a wall they can grow tall but the smell is wonderful. Brings back happy memories of my Mum. Thank you.
I usually wait until April to trim plants as we can still get snow. Will know when it is safe to trim back anything I need to.
In the meantime, I will listen to the birds singing and insets coming out of my bug houses.
Given I’m in the frozen North in Maine, I’m mostly living vicariously through you all at this time of year. But this sage melted out of the snowbank last week.
So I have my single brave sage and a bunch of milk jugs that are sown with various seeds.
Its normally temperate here in Oregon, but this winter has been unusually warm, of course with lots of rain.
I started some seeds today and scattered some cold hardy greens, need to do more cleanup outside.
Mustard greens all over the place, looking really good too ~
Everything is beautiful! I don’t think we can grow snowdrops in Texas. I know we don’t have wild cherry trees, or any cherry trees. I have never smelled a cherry blossom before. Thanks for sharing your beautiful plants!
I spy the little red beauty! What a wonderful visitor to see. It’s way too early for them here in SE Michigan, but the feeders will be ready and, this year, the honeysuckle should take off. They found it last year, there just weren’t a lot of blooms.
When we bought the place a few years ago, I asked the former homeowner if she’d ever put out nectar or anything to attract them, and she had not. They lived here 7 years. So, I’m still training them.
